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The Lockheed bribery scandals encompassed a series of bribes and contributions made by officials of U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft. [1] The scandal caused considerable political controversy in West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan.
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He became president of Lockheed in 1967, a period in which the firm produced the C-5 Galaxy cargo plane and the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane for the U.S. military and the L-1011 TriStar jet for the commercial market. [1] Development of the L-1011 began in the late 1960s, during Kotchian's presidency, and was started without any firm orders.
The Lockheed bribery scandals were a series of illegal bribes and contributions made by Lockheed officials from the late 1950s to the 1970s. In late 1975 and early 1976, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate led by Senator Frank Church concluded that members of the Lockheed board had paid members of friendly governments to guarantee contracts for ...
A defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S. military history is expected to face additional charges following his return to the United States from Venezuela ...
Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S. Navy ...
Japan's Ministry of Defense was considering various candidates for the Air SDF's new fighter jet, including the Lockheed CL1010-2, McDonnell-Douglas F-4, Saab 37 Viggen and Dassault Mirage F1. However, in practice the CL-1010-2 was still under development, and the probability of using European jets was low due to the US-Japan security treaty ...
The mastermind behind the decade-long bribery scheme and one of the largest corruption scandals in US military history that brought down dozens of Navy officials has been sentenced to 15 years in ...